maintenanceguy

Started with a bb gun with my daughter when she was 4 or 5 - with dad helping her hold it. She just turned 17 and goes out on her own to the backyard range to shoot. She's very comfortable and competent with all sorts of firearms and a pretty good shot.

I've got a receptacle in the same electrical box as the wall switch in my bedroom. I have a similar rechargeable flashlight plugged in to that receptacle. If the electric goes out, that flashlight comes on and it has woken me up to let me know the power's out.

Devils: I'm not picking on you. I know lots of NJ residents who own guns and feel exactly the same way. But...this is a big part of our problem. If it's true that 1 million NJ residents own guns, that means everybody knows dozens of gun owners but assumes that nobody they know would own a gun. This just helps further the false message that only dangerous scary people own guns. I really wish that everyone who owned a gun behaved as if they had done nothing wrong and had nothing to be ashamed of. Imagine if every anti-gun person living in NJ had to face the reality that a dozen perfectly normal people that they are related to, work with, know from church, do business with, and like and respect are gun owners. It might force some people to accept the reality that gun ownership isn't a dirty shameful secret that we should hide.

The lights you show are battery powered but need to be hard wired to a electrical circuit. The electrical circuit provides charging for the internal battery but also trigger the light to come on when the power goes out. These are the same lights you see mounted in every commercial building.

Reflective Sign...Brilliant - Pun?

He and I went to college together and have stayed in touch. He only sells through a couple of on-line sites and has a small table at a couple of knife shows each year. It takes so long to make one of these by hand that he puts each one up for sale when it's done. He has no inventory. If there's something you'd like to pass along, I can get a message to him. I'm not sure if he sells directly (other than at knife shows) or if he does custom work.

There should be a sign right at the home owner's property line: "Honk if you support local gun ranges". The sign should be reflective to be seen at night.

What dates would you approve for a price increase? Can he do it on Thanksgiving or St.Patrick's Day? If you don't want to pay his prices, just buy somewhere else. I have the feeling that you feel like he did something to you personally - but you didn't have any pricing agreement with him. You're free to buy from anyone. Even if he raised his price by $1,000,000, he didn't harm you. If you want to control the price of goods - start your own business and you can set the price as low as you want. Don't worry. If his price is too high, everyone will buy somewhere else and he'll have to lower his price. If his price is too low, he won't make enough money to cover his costs and he'll have to raise his price. The free market sets his price - he doesn't. He can adjust it up or down temporarily to see what works and every business does this. But he can't set his price above everyone else and keep it there - he'll loose to many sales. And the industry as a whole can't set an artificially high price either to collectively gouge the public because someone in that group of businesses will cheat and lower the price to get sales and then everyone else will have to do the same. Prices are market driven.

Kevin Lesswing in Bayonne makes some pretty impressive stuff.

I have an online retail store. We ended up with a sort-of-celebrity edorsement (he's at least a celebrity in our little nitche market) that we didn't expect. Sales tripled for about 2 months. We couldn't keep up. We hired high school kids to help us fill orders, we bought out all of our suppliers. We really struggled to meet demand. We needed to curtail demand so we raised our prices. We made our product less desirable by making it too expensive and sales slowed to a level we could meet. We weren't intending to gouge. I'm sure that some saw our price increase and thought that was what we were doing. Sellers who increase prices during times of higher demand are not necessarily cheating. I'd argue that both the buyer and seller have to agree on a price or the sale won't happen.

I've done it in the parking lot of a gun shop, parking lot of a range, at the seller's place of business after hours, and other places that I can not disclose for fear of incriminating myself. All sales were legal. NJ law makes transport such a burden that sometimes, you have to ask yourself how far you're willing to struggle to attempt to follow an impossible-to-navigate law.

Motion sensor can't see through glass so it won't take a photo from inside the house but these things are weather proof so you can just strap it to a tree, post, etc. If you're trying to get night photos using the illuminating LED's, your camera will be noticed. These LED's produce light outside of the visible spectrum but really, really close to red. There is some "bleed" into the visible spectrum and when the LED's come on, you can see the faint red glow. A deer doesn't understand cameras and may look at the odd red glow but it won't scare them away. If a person is stealing a sign and notices a red light come on, they might investigate - and now you've lost your sign and your camera.

Also, keep in mind that if you're ever audited, they may check to see what the camper was really worth. If you donate a camper worth $100 and the non-profit gives you a letter claiming that you made a $10,000 donation, they committed fraud. If you used that letter to deduct $10,000 from your taxable income, you committed fraud. And as everyone else already said, you don't take the donation amount off of your tax bill, you only save the taxable portion of that donation. Every time I hear somebody say that a business only made a donation to a charity because it saves them money on their taxes, I cringe.

I don't know how old he was but I don't think he was any older than 40. Sad.

My 9 year old is learning math like that in school - except he has to draw circles in boxes to prove that 3-1=0

The "SKS Conversion" thread got me thinking. If somebody modified an AR so that the magazine could not be removed without disassembly of the rifle, it's no longer an "assault weapon". It could have a flash suppressor, adjustable stock, etc. But, how do you load such a rifle, when the bolt is retracted, there isn't enough room to load the magazine from the top. What if the bottom came off the magazine? You could open a trap door at the bottom of the mag, slide out the spring and follower and load from the bottom. Seems legal. Anything I missed? Any way this is illegal?

Don't leave us guessing. How do the exemptions effect transporting long guns with an FID card?

Who's Big John?

Apparently Banger's Sports shop has a sign on the door that they are temporarily closed because of an emergency but will reopen "shortly". I don't know when shortly is. Was planning to stop out there next week.

NJSA 2C:39-5. c. Rifles and shotguns. (1) Any person who knowingly has in his possession any rifle or shotgun without having first obtained a firearms purchaser identification card in accordance with the provisions of N.J.S.2C:58-3, is guilty of a crime of the third degree. You can transport if you "first obtained" a FID card. The law does not say you have to have it on you.

This is confusing. First Step:, NJ bans some guns by name. Somebody posted that long list above. If you own one of these specific models it is illegal. For example, the Colt AR15 is on the list and is therefore illegal. But...an identical Stag-15 or Bushmaster MX15 is legal - even though it's basically the same gun it's not the exact model listed. But NJ also says that any firearm that is "substantially identical" to one of the listed firearms is also illegal. Since "substantially identical" is a nonsense term, the courts said that's not good enough. The told the NJAG that he needed to define the term more clearly. He came up with something completely ridiculous and far from the intent of the law but the courts okayed it. He came up with a list of 5 evil features. Second Step: If it's not on the banned list, it might still be illegal. If it is semi-auto and has a detachable magazine it can only have one "evil feature". More than one evil feature makes it illegal. The evil features are: Pistol Grip Folding or Adjustable stock Bayonet Mount Flash Hider Threaded Barrel Grenade Launcher But there are ways to overcome these too. A pistol grip on an AR is a given so you already have one evil feature, you can't have any others. An adjustable stock needs to be drilled and pinned so it can't adjust. A Bayonet mount just gets the lugs ground off with an angle grinder. A flash hider is removed and replaced with a muzzle break. But, since a threaded barrel is also a no-no, you have to have the muzzle break pinned and welded or welded to the barrel. It can't be removable to expose the deadly threads. It's unlikely you have a grenade launcher so you're probably okay on that one. The actual letter from the NJAG to the prosecutor's offices explaining this crazy stuff can be found here: http://themaintenanceguy.com/gfimages/definition-nj-assault-weapons.pdf

I need a picture

Thanks everybody. A friend and I remember the language differently. I wanted to see if I had the intent wrong. My original was from 88 too. I was sure that language was on that card but was wondering if I imagined it. Thanks.

I'm looking for one of the old style FID cards that had the "good for transporting rifles and shotguns" printed on the bottom. If you're over 50 and haven't moved, you might have one of these. The cards issued in the last 20+ years don't say this anymore. I'm hoping that someone who has one is willing to scan or photograph their card (with personal data blurred out) and post it here. Thanks.

Since each permit is $2 (after you pay for the fingerprinting and other fees), I always apply for 3 at a time. I've only used all 3 once but I figure that if I see a deal somewhere, it would be nice to be able to have a permit in hand.